All Episodes
Peoples & Things — 81 episodes
Special Episode: Accounting for Computing, or Why We So Badly Need a New Social and Economic History of Everyday Digital Technology Use
Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture
Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of Money
The World According to Sound: Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett on Audio Art, Wonder, and Humanistic Reasoning
Ben Collier on Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
Fred Turner on Countercultures, Cybercultures, and Californian and Texan Ideologies
Thomas Haigh on the History of “AI” as a Brand
Verena Halsmayer on Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact
Cory Doctorow on Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse
Kate Epstein on How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Whitney Laemmli on Making Movement Modern
Ashleigh Wade on How Black Girls Use Social Media
Julien Mailland on "The Game That Never Ends: How Lawyers Shape the Videogame Industry"
Tiia Sahrakorpi on a Use-Based History of Electricity in Finland
Mary Bridges on US Bankers Abroad and the Making of a Global Superpower
Savannah Mandel on an Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration
Matthew Wisnioski on the History of the Idea and Culture of “Innovation” in the United States
Ben Snyder on Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore’s Surveillance Experiment
Beth Linker on Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America
Helen Thompson on Disorder and the Analysis of Contemporary Geopolitics
Jessica Smith on Engineering and Public Accountability in Energy Industries
Lauren E. Bridges on Fantasies and Realities of Digital Transformation and the Data Center Industry
Jeremy Braddock on "Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums"
Jeffrey Lee Funk on Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles
Eleni Kalantidou on Design, Repairability, and Cultures of Repair
Aure Schrock on Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America
Gabriella Coleman on Hackers Cultures (Plural!)
Marshall Poe on the New Books Network, Technology, and the Future of Academic Communication
Special Episode: Mike Sacasas on the Question of the Human, and the Question of Technology, Live at the Bradley Study Center
Joshua Brinkman on American Farming Culture and the History of Technology
Matt Beane, "The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines" (HarperCollins, 2024)
Benjamin J. Shestakofsky on How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality
Anthony Kwame Harrison on Cassette Tapes and Hip Hop Culture
Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff on Automation
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
Emily M. Bender on AI Hype
Raquel Velho on Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System
Cyrus Mody on the Importance of Square (as in NOT COOL) Scientists and Engineers
Benjamin C. Waterhouse on "One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America"
Kate McDonald on Asian Mobility History as Labor History
Paula Bialski on Middletech, Software Work, and the Culture of Good Enough
Trish Kahle on the Labor History of Energy Systems
danah boyd on Digital Technology and Everyday Life
Jennifer Hart on African Mobility and Infrastructure
Bryan Hanson on Disrupting Academic Bullying
MC Forelle on Cars, Chipification, and Repair
Asif Siddiqi on Rockets, Prisons, Pop Songs, and So Much More
Sean Vanatta on Credit Cards
Guru Madhavan on Wicked Problems and Engineering a Better World
John Warner on Teaching Writing in the Age of Generative AI
Xaq Frohlich on the History of Food Labeling
Zachary Loeb on the History of the End of the World
Robert Charette on Researching the Material World
The Taste of Water: A Conversation with Christy Spackman
Oil Beach - How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life: A Conversation with Christina Dunbar-Hester
Twenty Years After “The New Economy”: A Conversation with Doug Henwood
Forty Years of Technology Studies
Race and Electrical Infrastructure in the Jim Crow South
The Ideology of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Robert Eberhart
Outside the Box: The History and Future of Globalization
How Uber Disrupted Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Katie Wells and Kafui Attoh
Driving While Black: African Americans and the Automobile
Powering American Farms: A Conversation with Richard Hirsh
US History in 15 Foods: A Conversation with Anna Zeide
African American Women on the American Railroad: A Conversation with Miriam Thaggert
Palo Alto: A Conversation with Malcolm Harris
The Singer Sewing Machine in Spain and Mexico: Multinational Business, Gender, and Technologies
The History of the American Shopping Mall and Its Cultures
Red Team Blues and the Social Dimensions of Technology
The History of 19th-Century Quarantine Politics: A Conversation with David S. Barnes
Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management
Winning & Losing in the Emerging EV Wars/The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly
Left to Our Own Devices: A Conversation with Julia Ticona
Traveling Black, A Story of Race and Resistance: A Conversation with Mia Bay
Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico's Northern Border, 1930-1950
Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt
BONUS EPISODE: New Books Network and Future Plans
The History of the Black Urban Working-Class in the United States
The Politics of Bicycling